Caleb Weldon

My hot take is US Senators should be paid whatever their states minimum wage is. That’s how you represent your constituents, you live like them.

BREAKING: Taxpayers to foot Trump's $1.7 BILLION bill as president sues his own government: 'I'm paying myself'

I think the big Utah data center is fine.

Is there any political movement in modern American history that has proved as flawed, empty, and thoroughly discredited as Never Trump “conservatism”? These people were once neocons who purported to believe in American power projection and wanted the GOP to be more common sense-oriented on cultural matters—deemphasizing certain social issues while forcefully rejecting conspiratorial nonsense. Now we have a Republican president who is largely pragmatic on policy and has found a way to sell that to the GOP base more competently than any politician this lot ever worked for, while also broadening the party’s reach with various minority groups—something they also once purported to care deeply about. And what are these folks up to? They’re shilling for Thomas Massie, a slopulist libertarian conspiracy monger whose super PAC pumps out grotesque antisemitic, homophobic garbage and who doxxes random Americans to insinuate they are guilty of child rape. Why? Because MAGA is campaigning aggressively against him. But that’s not all. They’re also running interference for some of the biggest Third Worldists, grifters, and near-communist radicals in the Democratic Party—including the Nazi tattoo, Reddit-freak champagne socialist running against the GOP’s most moderate, Trump-skeptical senator in Maine, and the Islamoleftist “Eat the Rich” and “Happy Nakba Day! 🎉🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇷🏳️‍🌈🍾” mayor of New York City. It would be one thing if this crew were still bitching about January 6th or tariffs, but this kind of stuff shows just how all-consuming and unprincipled their opposition to Trump, the Right, and America has become. You can make a nice living selling Trump Derangement Syndrome panic porn to bored, wealthy, braindead boomers. All you have to do is abandon nearly everything you once claimed to believe rather than admit: maybe Orange Man not bad ALL the time. Most—not all, but most—of the people who initially signed onto this movement eventually came to realize they’d made a mistake. They started calling balls and strikes on Trump rather than reflexively opposing everything he was for. And once they did that, many even regained influence within Trumpworld. Because that is how pragmatists like Trump operate. Think about Zohran’s White House meeting or this past week’s discussions in China with Xi. With Trump, there is almost always room for negotiation and collaboration, even with people who once took deeply hostile positions against you. With the Bulwark crowd, opposition to Trump stopped being a political disagreement long ago. It became an identity, a business model, and eventually a totalizing worldview.

The liberal nationalist ideology of the New Deal is the best ideology ever invented by humankind. America has strayed from that path, but none of the modern alternatives -- CCP technonationalism, European degrowth, MAGA, wokeness, etc. -- measures up.

Just a friendly warning. We don’t even make $200k per year in Congress despite working nearly 140 days. If we aren’t properly compensated, a lot of us will go to the private sector and you will be left with some real idiots in Congress.

The “American labor movement” is already dead, and has been for a long time. Labor unions are a private-sector stopgap for wage laws, safety regulations, unemployment insurance, and other functions which are now decidedly handled by the government. Social democracy kills unions.